ECONOMICS FOR THE CURIOUS: INSIDE THE MINDS OF 12 NOBEL LAUREATES
Book ID/图书代码： 08296014B69963
English Summary/英文概要： Alfred Marshall, the founder of modern economics, once described economics as ’the study of mankind in the ordinary business of earning a living’. In Economics for the Curious, 12 Nobel Laureates show that ’the ordinary business of earning a living’ covers a wide range of activities, as they take readers on an engaging tour of some of the everyday issues that can be explored using basic economic principles.
Written in the plainest possible language, Nobel Laureates including Paul Krugman, Eric Maskin, Finn E. Kydland and Vernon Smith confront some of the key issues challenging society today – challenges that claim attention in any phase of the business cycle. The range of topics includes how economic tools can be used to rebuild nations in the aftermath of a war; financing retirement as longevity increases; the sustainable use of natural resources and what governments should really be doing to boost the economy.
Economics for the Curious is an accessible but informative display of the kinds of questions economics can illuminate. It will appeal to anyone who has an interest in economics and the world around them, and we hope it will encourage further interest and study in the topic from readers everywhere.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 阿尔弗雷德•马歇尔是现代经济学的创始人，曾形容经济学为“人类谋生的日常业务的研究“。在《经济学的好奇》中，12名诺贝尔奖获得者表明“谋生的日常业务’涵盖了广泛的活动，他们带领读者踏上关于日常问题的引人入胜之旅，而这些问题可以使用基本的经济原则进行探讨。
尽可能的用最朴素的语言写就，诺贝尔奖获得者包括保罗•克鲁格曼，埃里克•马斯金，芬恩•E•基德兰德和弗农•史密斯认为面对一些当今社会的主要挑战问题时，要重视在经济周期的任何阶段。话题的范围包括经济手段如何被用来在战后重建国家；随着寿命延长，融资退任；可持续利用自然资源以及政府真正应该做些什么来提振经济。
《经济学的好奇》是对可阐明的各种经济学问题的可访问的且信息性的展示。这将吸引任何对经济学有兴趣或者对经济学周围的世界感兴趣的人，我们希望这将鼓励更多的读者对该话题关注和研究。(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 奥伯特M.索洛是麻省理工学院的名誉教授，自1949年以来就一直在该校教经济学。他教本科生和研究生宏观经济学等多学科，直到1996年1月。索洛教授曾就读于哈佛大学，并因为他的”增长理论“于1987年获得了诺贝尔经济学奖。 他曾担任多年的波士顿联邦储备银行的董事会成员，并且担任了为期三年的董事会主席。他过去曾是美国科学院院长， 英国科学院院士，以及美国国家科学委员会的前成员。他在2000年获得美国国家科学奖章。他写了很多经济增长，宏观经济学和失业理论方面的文章和书籍，并偶尔为纽约书评和新共和国写评论。一些他最著名的作品包括《资本理论和回报率》（1963年）；《增长理论：一种阐述》（1970年）；《美国制造：重新获得生产边缘》（与M. Dertouzos，R.莱斯特和麻省理工学院委员会合著的关于工业生产力的书，1989）；《劳动力市场作为一种社会制度》（1990年）和《现代宏观经济理论》（与弗兰克汉，1995）。他目前是拉塞尔•塞奇基金会的基金会学者。
卫兰•穆雷20年来一直在麻省理工学院与经济学家罗伯特•索洛和保罗•A•萨缪尔森一起工作。她为麻省理工学院出版社编辑了保罗•A•萨缪尔森的《科学论文集》的卷6和卷7。 她住在马萨诸塞的波士顿。
Robert M. Solow is Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a professor of economics since 1949. He taught macroeconomics and other subjects to undergraduate and graduate students until January, 1996. Professor Solow studied at Harvard and received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1987 for his theory of growth. For a number of years he served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and was Chairman of that Board for three years. He is past president of the American Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a former member of the National Science Board. He received the National Medal of Science in 2000. He has written articles and books on economic growth, macroeconomics, and the theory of unemployment, as well as occasional reviews in The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. Some of the books for which he is most noted include Capital Theory and the Rate of Return (1963); Growth Theory: an Exposition (1970); Made in America: Regaining the Productive Edge (with M. Dertouzos, R. Lester and the MIT Commission on Industrial Productivity, 1989); the Labor Market as a Social Institution (1990); and A Critical Essay on Modern Macroeconomic Theory (with Frank Han, 1995). He is currently Foundation Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.
Janice Murray spent 20 years at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working with economists Robert M. Solow and Paul A. Samuelson. For the MIT Press she edited Volumes 6 and 7 of The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul A. Samuelson, published in 2011. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
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